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<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Data Science and Informatics Core for Cancer Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
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cells, to individuals, to populations. However, cancer research faces significant challenges such as enormous volume and heterogeneity of the data.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Furthermore, new technologies applied to cancer research can generate data at extremely high speeds. These “big data” pose a significant challenge to conventional data analysis methodologies.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>We established a Data Science and Informatics Core Facility for Cancer Research (DSICCR) to analyze big data and provides integrative solutions to analyze cancer data at all levels.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>DSICCR supports the cancer research community by establishing a powerful “big data” infrastructure using data science-oriented high-performance computing, deployed with analytic and mining algorithms and software built upon DSICCR faculty’s cutting-edge
data science and informatics research. This infrastructure will support DSICCR’s data science and informatics services to the cancer research community through collaborative research, data analysis services, and outreach and education programs.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style:
italic">DSICCR is uniquely positioned to leverage existing research networks and make this vast amount of information more available to the cancer research community – an unprecedented opportunity to support multi-scale
cancer research statewide.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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from UT Southwestern and MS in Computer Science from UT Dallas.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Dr. Zheng is an associate professor and the director of Bioinformatics and High Performance Computing Service Center at the University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHealth) School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston. Dr. Zheng is an expert in data
mining, large scale data integration and visualization, and received PhRMA Foundation Research Starter Award in 2008.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
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